Resources

The Department of Communications Studies Chair Eric Pierson, PhD, will be featured at the San Diego Black Film Festival for his role in “Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat by the Door.”

"Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat by the Door" is a 50-minute documentary on the controversial and repressed 1973 film "The Spook Who Sat By the Door." Through interviews — with author Sam Greenlee, Berlie Dixon, widow of director Ivan Dixon, Academy Award winning editor Michael Kahn, actors David Lemieux, Janet League-Katzin, J.A. Preston, Paul Butler, Melvin Van Peebles, academics, Ed Guerrero, Todd Boyd and Eric Pierson — as well as archival footage and production documents, "Infiltrating Hollywood" tells the story of "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" from its inception as a novel to its release and repression.